Luke 12:5
Greek Text— Luke 12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
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So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver like this.”
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”
But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.
“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.
Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.
Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
“I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; “for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom is that which will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even to the end.
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?